Synonyms for dusk
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1. dusknoun

   Synonyms:
   sundown, sunset, vespers, smokefall, evenfall

   Antonyms:
   dawn

2. dusknoun

   to begin to lose light or whiteness; to grow dusk

   Synonyms:
   vespers, smokefall, evenfall, sundown, sunset

   Antonyms:
   dawn

English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:5.0 / 2 votes

1. dusk

   Synonyms:
   blackness, dark, darkness, dimness, gloom, gloominess, obscurity, shade, shadow

   Antonyms:
   blaze, flame, flare, flash, flicker, glare, gleam, gleaming, glimmer, glistening, glistering, glitter, glow, illumination, incandescence, light, luster, scintillation, sheen, shimmer, shine, shining, sparkle, twinkle, twinkling

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:4.5 / 2 votes

1. twilight, dusk, gloaming, gloam, nightfall, evenfall, fall, crepuscule, crepuscleverb

   the time of day immediately following sunset

   "he loved the twilight"; "they finished before the fall of night"

   Synonyms:
   gloam, crepuscle, declension, declination, pin, fall, surrender, gloaming, evenfall, descent, capitulation, decline, declivity, downslope, drop, autumn, dip, tumble, crepuscule, twilight, free fall, spill, nightfall, downfall

2. duskverb

   become dusk

Matched Categories

1. • Darken

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:1.0 / 1 vote

1. dusknoun

   Synonyms:
   twilight

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1. dusknoun

   Synonyms:
   twilight, evening, nightfall

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1. List of paraphrases for "dusk":

   twilight, nightfall, sunset, sundown, evening, dark

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1. Soledad Ursua:

   You make sure to get home by dusk, there's fights multiple times a day on the Ocean Front Walk... stabbings, shootings are happening weekly. It's just a very dangerous time to be a Venice resident right now.

2. Henry Anatole Grunwald:

   Home is the wallpaper above the bed, the family dinner table, the church bells in the morning, the bruised shins of the playground, the small fears that come with dusk, the streets and squares and monuments and shops that constitute one's first universe.

3. Jeremy Kiszka:

   This is totally related to the sharks behavior, and sharks preferentially attacked isolated swimmers and surfers, at dusk and dawnespecially at dusk they tend to forage closer to shore.

4. Mariana Fulger:

   You can love a person for walking the same roads as you every dusk or dawn. You can love a person a lot by teaching him to love people, thus himself. You can love someone like no one has ever loved or will ever love them, but you can’t ask anyone to love you.

5. Debasish Mridha, M.D.:

   Look at the magnificence of love, at this heavenly dusk, wind is singing the song of joy, the sun is kissing the ocean. Saying goodbye for the night, promising to wake her up at the dawn of life, with the touch of his warmth and light.